Category Archives: East Africa

Designing environmental research infrastructures in Africa
Climate change / East Africa / Environment / ILRI / Mazingira / SLS

Designing environmental research infrastructures in Africa

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On 29 May to 1 June 2017, a team of scientists and other stakeholders in environmental research convened at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi to discuss environmental research infrastructures in Africa. This was a kick-off meeting of the project —Supporting EU-African Cooperation on Research Infrastructures for Food Security and Greenhouse gas observations (SEACRIFOG) — funded by the European Union under the Horizon2020 program. Continue reading →

Smallholder farmers’ training presents new livelihood horizons for a group of women in western Kenya
Capacity strengthening / Dairying / East Africa / ILRI / Kenya / Mazingira / SLS

Smallholder farmers’ training presents new livelihood horizons for a group of women in western Kenya

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A group of women in western Kenya, upon completion of a training course in smallholder dairy production offered by the Mazingira Centre of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), have adopted and commercialized preparation of home-made dairy meal for cattle. Continue reading →

New research partnership seeks to explore the value of bioslurry
CCAFS / Climate change / East Africa / Environment / Kenya / SLS / Uncategorized

New research partnership seeks to explore the value of bioslurry

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The Mazingira Centre of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has now entered into a research partnership with the Kenya Biogas Program (KBP) of Hivos to assess the environmental, agronomic and productivity effects of bioslurry as organic fertilizer for crops in smallholder systems. Continue reading →

Voices from the lab: A research fellow shares her experience at the Mazingira Centre
CCAFS / Climate change / East Africa / Environment / Kenya / Mazingira / SLS

Voices from the lab: A research fellow shares her experience at the Mazingira Centre

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In this blog, one of the many researchers hosted by the Mazingira Centre under its objective of capacity development, Shade Akinsete from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, shares her experience as a Postdoctoral fellow (funded via Climate Impacts Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement – CIRCLE – program) – at the Centre. Continue reading →

CCAFS / Climate change / East Africa / Environment / Mazingira / SLS

Better information and inclusive participation key to enable African farmers cope with changing climate

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The Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (ACSAA) held its second annual forum in Nairobi on 11–13 October 2016 which discussed Africa’s intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs). Under the Paris Agreement that seeks to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, countries publicly outlined the climate actions they intended to take, known as their INDCs. A parallel session by the CGIAR Research … Continue reading →

Capacity strengthening / CCAFS / Dairying / East Africa / ILRI / Kenya / Livestock / Mazingira / SLS

Improving productivity in Kenyan smallholder dairy systems through selective, intensive education and supported adoption

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This poster, produced for the Tropentag 2016 conference, shares how the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is working with NGOs, dairy cooperatives and GIZ, in the framework of a BMZ-funded project in western Kenya, to assess the potential of dairy farmers to implement new technologies that will further improve their operations. Continue reading →